Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday his plans to add more specialized high schools citywide, specifically focusing on Queens.

Cuomo partnered with the organization Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education or PLACE NYC, in developing the plan, a keystone of which, if he is elected, would be to build another specialized school in Queens.

The borough currently has only one specialized school, Queens High School for the Sciences, which accepts just 130 new students a year. Other existing specialized schools are far larger, such as Brooklyn Tech, which accepts around 1,400 new students a year, and Bronx High School of Science, which enrolls around 720 new students a year.

Cuomo’s long-term plan is to raise the total number of specialized seats in Queens to 1

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